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New Features
============
* Link Bonding
* Support for adaptive load balancing (mode 6) to the link bonding library.
* Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
* Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
* Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
* Support for Flow Director
* Support for ethertype filter
* Support RSS in VF
* Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
- 128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
- 64 entries of 40GbE VF
* Support configuring hash functions
* Support for VXLAN packet on Intel® 40GbE Controllers
* Packet Distributor Sample Application
* Poll Mode Driver - PCIE host-interface of Intel Ethernet Switch FM10000 Series (librte_pmd_fm10k)
* Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
* Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
* Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
* Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
* Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
* Scatter receive function for PF/VF
* Reta update/query for PF/VF
* VLAN filter set for PF
* Link status query for PF/VF
For further features supported in this release, see Chapter 3 Supported Features.